Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction: The Case of French in Ontario, Canada

by Raymond Mougeon, Edouard Beniak, ?Douard Beniak

Overview

This study of minority languages documents the linguistic consequences of contact and restriction. First providing sociohistorical and sociolinguistic backgrounds, the book analyzes the effect contact with English and language-use restriction has had on the evolution of the French dialect spoken in predominately English-speaking Ontario, Canada. Addressing such fundamental theoretical issues as the interplay between linguistic and extralinguistic causes of structural change and the mechanisms of linguistic change in bilingual communities, this work will appeal to linguists interested in language contact and linguistic change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198248279
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	01/28/1991
Series:	Oxford Studies in Language Contact Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.83(d)

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a welcome addition to a growing genre: variationist approaches to bilingualism and language contact....A significant contribution to studies of minority languages and to the understanding of linguistic change more generally."—Language

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